About the Authors

Dietrich Rothenbacher

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

dietrich.rothenbacher@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Stefanie Braig

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Chad A. Logan

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Gertrud Feike

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Miriam Müller

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

Wolfgang Koenig

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine II—Cardiology, University Medical Center Ulm, Ulm, Germany, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), partner site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germany

Frank Reister

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Medical Center Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Jon Genuneit

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Member of ‘In-FLAME’ the International Inflammation Network, World Universities Network (WUN), West New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interest exist.